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rights conferred by the treaty of Rome. In the case of Portuguese nationals, however, these rights do not include the right to take employment in this country until 1 January 1993. A person exercising treaty rights is entitled to be accompanied by his or her spouse, descendants under 21 years of age and dependants in the ascending and descending lines.
Court Houses
62. Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many new court houses have been open since 1979.
Mr. John Patten: Thirty-one, including the major improvement of existing buildings as well as new
construction.
Voluntary Sector Funding
63. Mr. Barry Field: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to implement the recommendations contained in the efficiency scrutiny report on Government funding for the voluntary sector.
Mr. John Patten: Home Office officials-and those in other Departments concerned-will be preparing action plans to review their grant programmes in the light of the principles set out in the statement of policy towards the voluntary sector given in my right hon. and learned Friend's answer to a Question from my hon. Friend the Member for Daventry (Mr. Boswell) on 4 April 1990 at column 639 and of the recommendations of the scrutiny report.
Daylight Saving
65. Mr. Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will introduce proposals to introduce daylight saving.
Mr. Peter Lloyd: We are still considering the results of the consultation exercise.
Terrorism
66. Mr. Hunter: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a further statement on the measures which are being taken to combat international terrorism.
Mr. Waddington: The Government remain fully committed to the fight against terrorism, and will continue to play a leading role in the various international bodies of which the United Kingdom is a member in order to strengthen and improve counter terrorist cooperation. The Trevi group provides a forum in which information about terrorist threats and incidents can be passed rapidly between EC member states and agreement reached on effective, practical measures. The United Kingdom also conducts bilateral exchanges with a wide range of countries to strengthen further international cooperation. I recently had such meetings with the Ministers of the Interior for France and Czechoslovakia. I am meeting the Minister of the Interior for Portugal tomorrow, 4 May and I shall be meeting European Community colleagues collectively at the next meeting of Trevi Ministers in Dublin in June.
Sexual Violence
67. Mrs. Golding: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes of sexual violence were reported to the police forces in England and Wales in 1988.
Mr. John Patten: The information requested is published in table 6 of Home Office statistical bulletin 10/90, a copy of which is available in the Library.
Drug Traffickers (Confiscation of Assets)
68. Mr. Ian Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the value of drug traffickers' assets ordered to be confiscated by the courts in 1988; and what estimate he has as to the likely figure for 1989.
Mr. John Patten: The latest figures, which are in respect of confiscation orders made in 1987 and 1988, are given in table 7.25 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales 1988", a copy of which is in the Library. These show that £8.1 million was ordered to be confiscated in 1988. Data for 1989 will not be available until autumn 1990. The current estimate by the national drugs intelligence unit of the cumulative total of confiscation orders made since the Drug Trafficking Offences Act came into force in January 1987, is in excess of £16 million.
Security Industry
Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will place the July 1989 report of the working group on self-regulation of the security industry in the Library; and when his Department expects to complete its consideration of this report.
Mr. John Patten: I hope that consideration of the report will be completed in the near future.
Commission for Racial Equality
Mr. Tim Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are members of the Commission for Racial Equality; and how many of them are of (a) black Caribbean, black African or other black, (b) Indian, (c) Pakistani and (d) Bangladeshi origin.
Mr. John Patten: There are 14 members of the Commission for Racial Equality, including the chairman and deputy chairmen, of whom three are of black Caribbean, black African or other black origin; two of Indian origin; one of Pakistani origin and one of Bangladeshi origin.
Correspondence
Mr. Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he hopes to reply to the letter dated 10 April from the hon. Member for South Hams concerning Laurent Derioz and his application for British nationality.
Mr. Peter Lloyd: I wrote to the hon. Member on 1 May 1990.
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